And now a sketch dump, this is my tentative plan for fibers, where I have to dye a piece of cloth themed around a season. I picked winter for no special reason and am planning to have black shibori vines/branches with a turquoise blue sky. The problem is that discharging dyes never returns the fabric back to white, and the professor likes fabric to have a massive amount of over laid pattern and dying, to the point of obliterating nice patterns you obtained on the first go. So I guess i'll just have to see how it develops on it's own...
But, while I was finishing working on this thing in my 2D Design class:
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| (can you spot all the craftsmanship errors I will be docked for? I can!) |
An idea finally occured to me for jewlery design and here it is!
I've always wanted to do a swivel locket since I saw one featured in a Lapidary Journal magazine, plus I did encounter an acorn on my earlier attempt to get inspired by walking through the park. The narrative portion of the project comes in with having a little tree inside the acorn when you open it up. that will be formed by a copper wire, most likely with prongs to hold a wad of green fabric for leaves or perhaps threads.
The bail will be an oak leaf which I will probably have to shut up and patina it green, as much as I hate patinas. Thus I've already gone out and gotten spray lacquer for the occasion, to try and keep the patina from rubbing off too quickly. Currently this is my best plan to have a piece of jewelry that represents a walk in the woods, use of chasing and repousse, and a narrative all at once.
At least I'm closer to having a plan now and can finally begin work, woo.
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